Translation

Κύριε βοήθει Ἠλίᾳ ἐπισκόπῳ βερίσσων.

Lord, help Elias, bishop of Berisse.

Commentary

Berisse, modern Bolu, was a bishopric of the province of Armenia, a suffragan of Sebasteia, 25 km southwest of Tokat. It is mentioned in the notitiae episcopatuum throughout the twelfth century (see Darrouzès, Notitiae, passim) but its bishops are attested only in the fifth and sixth centuries: our specimen shows that the see continued to function effectively in the eleventh century. See Janin, in DHGE 8, 498-499; and Fedalto, HEO I, 54.